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Handmade ceramics: Why are you doing this to yourself?

Why do you start with handmade ceramics? What is handmade ceramics? When is something handmade? Is it art, is it design, is it craft?

Questions I had when I started making ceramics myself. But these are also the questions of the ceramics collector. And whoever has questions must look for answers!

It has been about 30 years since I took my first ceramics out of the kiln (burning my hands, because I couldn’t wait for it to cool down completely). Do I have all the answers by now?

Okay spoiler alert, I don’t … but I can give you my thoughts about it.

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Handmade Ceramics Design, from Mud to Mug

Design is the arrangement of visual elements in space. Handmade ceramics design is no exception. Except that you get mud on your hands (and on the floor and the rest of the studio). But are there any other differences?

For my mug project I thought it would be fun to put it to the test. Do theory and practice match? In this blog I will gladly take you into my ceramics design process. In other words: from mud to mug.

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